Safety or restraining device.



PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

M. E. MOGALMONT. SAFETY 0R YRESTRAINING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.17.1906.

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PATENTED MAY 7,-1907.

MoCALMONT. SAFETY OR RESTRAINING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.17,1906.

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WITNESSES To all whom, it may concern:

Improved Safety or Restraining Device, of

UNITED STATES; ATENT FFICI I.

MABEL E. MoOALMONT, OF WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAFETY OH FIESTRAINING DEVICE.

Be it known that I, IVIABEL E. MOCAL- MONT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Warren, in the county of Warren and State ofPennsylvania, have invented an which the following is a specification.

' g This invention is an improvement in re straining devices designedespecially for use in hospitals and asylums, or by the general nursingand medical profession, for restraining the movements of delirious,insane or unruly persons, including infants and children, which have tobe restrained or held in bed and the present invention relatesparticularly to restraining of the limbs, arms and legs, of a patient,and consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts aswill be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a top plan view of a patient in bed withthe arms and legs restrained by my improved devices. Fig. 2 is a detailperspective view of the outer side of one of the foot holders. Fig. 3 isa detail perspective view of the inner side of one of the foot holders.Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view showing the straps of the footholder, the body of the foot holderbeing indicated in dotted lines. Fig.5 is a detail perspective view of one of the hand holders with theflexible mitten unfastened and pushed back along the stiff palm plate.Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the hand holder, a hand beingillustrated in place therein; and Fig. 7 is a detaillongitudinal sectionof the hand holder with the hand therein.

By my invention I provide holders for the terminal members of the limbs,that is to say, either the arms or the legs, comprehendingwithin theterm terminal members, the hands or feet of the patient, the holders forthe hands and feet being especially designed for their respectiveterminal members, and I provide in connection with these holders, strapsfor securing them upon their respective terminal members and straps forrestraining the movements of the respective terminal members. This isimportant, as I find it desirable, in fact, practically necessary, tothe humane operation of devices of this class, that the straps forrestraining the movements of the limbs shall be so connected with theholders for the terminal members, thatsaid straps will tighten whenunder stress upon the limb and will slacken When the stress is released.In doing this, I

Patented May '7, 1907 terminal member, but will tighten itself upon thelimb, and thus more securely hold the holder upon the said terminalmember.

The holders for the hands and feet differ to suit the anatomicalstructure of the ,Lsaid parts, and I will first describe the holder forthe hands. These holders, except that they are made rights and lefts,may be alike, and they comprise a flat comparatively rigid palm plate A,which may be of suitable sole leather or other like material, and whichis made of the shape shown in Fig. 5, with an edge contour which inpractice extends outside the outlines of the hand, the palm of which isrested flat against the palm plate A so the latter will prevent the useor operations of the hand in clutching or grasping any object when thedevice is applied as shown in Fig. 7, and yet will permit a sufficientmovement of the fingers and thumb to prevent any cramping thereof. Thispalm plate has a shank or wrist extension A, to which are secured thestrap B for fastening the holder upon the hand, and the restrainingstrap 0. To this wrist portion are secured strings a and near the tipend of the palm plate I also secure strings o which in practice arepassed through eyelets d and d in the mittens to hold the same in placeupon the palm plates.

The mittens D are in the form of bags, adapted to he slipped over thetip end of the palm plates and to extend over the hand of the patientback to about the wrist, and are provided at their open wrist ends withdraw strings D by which they may be tightened upon the wrist of thepatient.

The restraining strap C is secured at C to the holder and preferably tothe palm plate A, and is formed into a loop C to pass around the wrist,and thence passes through a keeper guide C through which it freelyslides, a guard flap C being arranged within the loo to prevent thedirect contact of the keeper with the wrist of the patient. From the keeer C the strap C extends to the side of the ed and may be wrapped aroundthe side rails E of the bed and secured independently thereto, or thestrap C from the opposite hands may pass around the side rods E and bebuckled together beneath the bed as indic'ated by dotted lines inFig. 1. It will be noticed that these straps C permit the free movementof the arms outwardly and yet restrain their movement toward each other,and a under stress of the movement of the armsgtoward each other, theloops C of the straps C will tighten upon the armsgof the patient, aswill be'understood from Figs. 1 and 5 of the drawings. The strap B forsecuring the holder upon the hand, is secured at B to the palm plate A,and fastens by a buckle B which may be any suitable form of lock buckle,that shown being a lock buckle on the market at the present time, andthe particular construction of which I do not claim to be of myinvention.

v The mitten or bag D is preferably made of any suitable open-meshfabric, adapted to permit free ventilation of the hands.

The foot holder F has a body portion F which may be of soft kid or othersuitable leather or material, and is adapted to encircle the ankleportion of the foot, and is provided with an instep strap F at one endand an ankle strap F at the other end, the strap F operating to securethe holder F upon the foot. The restraining strap G is secured at oneend G to the instep strap F and extends thence back along the outer sideof the body ortion F, around the heel thereof, thence forward along theinner side of the body portion F. and curves at Gr over the instep tothe outer side of the holder F and thence down through a keeper 9 formedby slotting the strap G adjacent to the instep strap F and thence downbelow the holder and inwardly and may be secured at-g to the foot bar Eof the bed, preferably at about the middle thereof. This keeper gthrough which the restraining strap slides corresponds to the keeper Cof the hand restraining strap, and it will be noticed that the parts areso re lated in each instance that stress upon the restraining strapoperates to tighten the loop thereof upon the limb, and such loop willimmediately slacken when the stress is removed.

In connection with the restraining devices before described, I prefer toemploy the safety or restraining device I-I shown in Fig. 1, which formsthe subject matter of my previous patent No. 783,297, dated February 21,1905, for the reason that their combined use will constitute the meansof comfortably, humanely and effectually restraining the strongest andmost violent maniac, without resorting to that ancient, barbarous andunsanitary strait-jacket, or similar device,

so often responsible for many disastrous results and so much generalunoleanliness; while, on the other hand, the use of my devices, thuscombined, do not handicap the possibility of a perfect care of thepatient.

WVhat I claim is 1. A restraining device comprising a holder for aterminal member, a fastening device for securing said holder on theterminal member,

and a restraining strap connected with said holder and having a loop topass around the limb of a patient, and a keeper in which the strapslides freely whereby the loop may be tightened by stress upon therestraining strap and will loosen or slacken when such stress isreleased, substantially as set forth.

2. A restraining device comprising a holder adapted to receive aterminal member, a strap for securing the holder upon the terminalmember, and a restraining strap con nected with said holder for limitingthe movements of a terminal member secured in the holder restrainingstrap having a loop to pass around the member and adapted to tighten andslack with variations in stress on the strap, substantially as setforth.

3. A restraining device comprising a holder for a terminal member, meansfor securing the holder upon said member, and a restraining strapconnected with the holder and having a looped portion to pass around thelimb of a patient, and a keeper in which said restraining strap slides,whereby the loop will tighten under stress on the restraining strap andmay slacken when the stress is released, substantially as set forth.

4:. A restraining device comprising a holder for a. terminal member, arestrainlng strap connected with said holder and having a loop and akeeper through which the strap slides freely in both directions wherebythe loop may be tightened or slackened by variations in stress on thestrap, and means independent of the restraining strap for securing theholder upon the terminal member of a patient, substantially as setforth.

5. A restraining device having a comparatively stiff palm plate and amitten fitted removably thereon to hold the hand to the palm plate, andmeans for securing the holder upon a patients hand, substantially as setforth.

6. In a restraining device, a hand holder comprising acomparativelystiff plate against which the hand may rest flatwise, amitten slipped over said plate to retain the hand, and means forsecuring the holder upon a patients hand, substantially as set forth.

7. In a restraining device, a hand holder comprising a comparativelystiff plate, a mitten for holding a patients hand to said plate, a strapfor securing the holder upon the hand, and a restraining strap connectedwith the holder, substantially as set forth.

I 8. In a restraining device, a hand holder IOC comprising acomparatively stiff plate against Which the hand may rest flatWise, amitten slipped over the said plate for retaining the hand, strings forsecurin the mitten to the plate, a draw string for c osing the open endof the mitten, and means for securing the holder upon a patients hand,substantially as set forth.

9. In a restraining device, a hand holder comprising a comparativelystifl plate, a Wrist strap secured to the plate for fastening the sameupon a patients hand, a restraining device also connected with theplate, and a mitten for holding the hand of a patient to the-plate,substantially as set forth.

10. In a restraining device, a holder for a terminal member, comprisinga body portion, an instep strap, and an ankle strap in connectiontherewith, and a restraining strap secured to the body portion andhaving a loop and a keeper through Which the strap slides, substantiallyas set forth.

MABEL E. MOOALMONT. Witnesses:

' SoLoN C. KEMON,

PERRY B. TURPIN.

